n
(by extension) The state of lacking freedom; constraint.
n
(industrial relations) Any of a set of rules aimed at resolving conflicts among trade unions.
n
(obsolete, rare) Captivity.
n
A person who captivates, or holds one captive.
n
One who has been captured or is otherwise confined.
n
A person or people who are unable to leave a place or situation and are thus forced to listen to or watch something.
adj
(obsolete) Captured; captive.
n
The state or period of being imprisoned, confined, or enslaved.
n
One who is holding a captive or captives.
adv
In terms of or by means of imprisonment.
n
(politics) Peace maintained with devastating consequences for one of the parties involved.
n
The condition of being a chattel.
n
(military, US) A civilian in a war zone who performs the tasks of an armed soldier under the Geneva Convention.
n
The levying of a cosher, or tribute.
n
The state of being imprisoned or detained, usually pending a trial.
v
(military) To join the enemy army.
n
(law) Confinement of a prisoner awaiting trial.
n
(Scotland) A clerical or ecclesiastical function in Scotland.
n
The state of being enslaved.
n
The act of enslaving or the state of being a slave; bondage
n
The act of enthralling, or the state of being enthralled; slavery; bondage.
n
Alternative form of ex-con [(informal) A former prisoner.]
adj
Describes, a veteran or someone who used to be in the armed forces.
n
(Australia, historical) In penal colonies of early Australia, a convict whose sentence had been served.
n
(informal, derogatory) The charging of exorbitant maintenance fees to people living on private estates.
n
a person who travels to a foreign country to engage in a war on the side of some polity other than their native country (which may or may not be engaged in that war)
n
(politics, law) A person who negotiates with a person, or groups of persons, for the release of a person, or groups of persons.
n
(formal, obsolete, rare) allurement
adj
Of or relating to incarceration.
n
(historical) Illegal Indian trade within the area over which the Hudson's Bay Company held a trade monopoly.
n
A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.
n
(chiefly US and Canada) A workplace protest by employees designed to inconvenience or disrupt the business of the employer, especially one which is limited in duration or severity.
n
(rare, obsolete) sacrifice
v
Alternative form of mainprise [(transitive, law) To allow (a prisoner) to go at large, on his finding sureties, or mainpernors, for his appearance on a given day.]
n
A funeral paid for by the state when the estate or the relatives of the deceased person cannot provide sufficient funds to cover the cost.
adj
Serving as a place of punishment.
adj
Obsolete form of penal. [Of or relating to punishment.]
adj
Of or relating to the punishment of criminals.
n
(military) A member of the military who is being disciplined by being forbidden to leave the barracks or ship on which he/she is stationed.
n
(idiomatic, sometimes lower case) Any place to which one eagerly seeks to go and which one expects to greatly improve one's situation.
n
The process of keeping (something or someone) safe.
n
(law enforcement) Lawful confinement of a person or close supervision of his or her movements, on a voluntary or involuntary basis, by authorities in order to safeguard that person from attack or other dangers.
adj
Obsolete spelling of penal [Of or relating to punishment.]
adj
Obsolete form of penal. [Of or relating to punishment.]
n
Archaic spelling of penology. [Study of the processes devised and adopted for the punishment and prevention of crime.]
n
(historical) A slave freed by the British Royal Navy from a slave ship and brought to Freetown, now Sierra Leone's capital city.
n
A document that grants safe passage through enemy territory in times of war.
n
One who salves or cures.
n
A psychological condition in which a hostage emotionally bonds to his or her captor.
adj
(archaic) Enthralled; captive.
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